Claire Tomalin Quotes

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

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• To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Olympics
  • Qualify
  • World Championships

• One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • America
  • Creative
  • Solitude

• The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Government
  • Goal
  • Creating

• I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Mind
  • Real
  • American

• But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • High
  • Daily
  • Paper

• When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Work
  • Opinion
  • Start

• Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Job
  • Me

• You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • You
  • Doing
  • Bullying

• I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Want
  • Meaningful
  • Content

• No one likes getting hit. It's a normal thing... I used to make up excuses when the coach would ask me to get in the ring. I'd say I forgot my mouthpiece, or I'd say I had a headache or something.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Say
  • Coach
  • Excuses

• A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

  

  Saadi
  • Man
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity

• Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women
  • Marriage

• When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Want
  • You
  • Care

• Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Society
  • Legacy
  • Greatest

• Leaving the record companies tweaked something inside me and I realised I don't have to deal with labels to make something happen. If I want to meet someone, I don't have to go through the label - I'll just go to them. I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Leaving

• One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Deep
  • Sense
  • Outsider

• It is impossible to say just what I mean!But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:Would it have been worth while If one, settling aPillow or throwing off a shawl,And turning toward the window, should say:'That is not it at all,That is not what I meant, at all.'

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Magic

• The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Perfect

• Contract killings never get recorded as a woman killing a man.

  

  Warren Farrell

• I was invisible, and I was only just beginning to realise the extraordinary advantage my invisibility gave me. My head was already teeming with plans of all the wild and wonderful things I had now impunity to do.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Beginning

• Every weekday morning, I picture my first paragraph while I hike with my dog Milo near Mulholland Drive, looking out over the San Fernando Valley. I edit the paragraph, then memorize it, so that when I get back home and sit down at my computer, the blank screen's tyranny lasts only a second or two. A brief reign!

  

  Lauren Kate
  • Home
  • Morning
  • Picture

• Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

  

  Claire Tomalin